Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) articles from September 2005

Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) archives from September 2005

"To flee from all languages": the gap between language and experience in the works of modern Arab poets.
September 22, 2005... So here I am, in the middle of the way having had twenty years--Twenty years largely wasted... Trying to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure.... ... And so each...

Conflicting accounts on the fear of strangers: Muslim and Arab perceptions of Europeans in medieval geographical literature.
September 22, 2005... IN HIS CLASSICAL JOURNEY THROUGHOUT the ancient world, Ibn Batutah, a fourteenth-century Moroccan traveler, had wished to travel from the middle Volga city of Bulghar to the "Land of Darkness." The distance as he figured was about forty days....

Internal violence: state's role and society's responses.(Middle Eastern Arab society)
September 22, 2005... INTRODUCTION THIS ARTICLE FOCUSES ON the argument whether Middle Eastern Arab society is a violent, feudal one. The topic--violence in Arab society--is part of an Orientalist approach that dehumanizes the Arab world, presenting it as...

Ayalon, Ami. Reading Palestine: Printing and Literacy, 1900-1948.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Ayalon, Ami. Reading Palestine: Printing and Literacy, 1900-1948. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2004. Paper $21.95. The work discusses the development of the revolution in literacy that occurred in Palestine in the span of 50...

Dhaouadi, Mahmoud. At-takhalluf al-Aakhar: 'Awlamat Azamat al-Hawiyyaat ath-Thaqaafiyya fil-Watan al-'Arabi wal-'Aalam ath-Thaaleth-Arabic (The Other Under-development: The Globalization of the Crisis of Cultural Identity in the Arab Homeland and the Third World).(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Dhaouadi, Mahmoud. At-takhalluf al-Aakhar: 'Awlamat Azamat al-Hawiyyaat ath--Thaqaafiyya fil--Watan al-'Arabi wal--'Aalam ath--Thaaleth--Arabic (The Other Under-development: The Globalization of the Crisis of Cultural Identity in the Arab...

Nassar, Jamal R. Globalization and Terror: The Migration of Dreams and Nightmares.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Nassar, Jamal R. Globalization and Terror." The Migration of Dreams and Nightmares. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. Paper $22.95. The book deals with one of the most critical topics of our time. The author dissects globalization...

Ryan, Curtis R. Jordan in Transition: From Hussein to Abdullah.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Ryan, Curtis R. Jordan in Transition: From Hussein to Abdullah. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002. Hardcover $ 49.95. The book presents an account of transition in Jordan since the April 1989 upheaval. Curtis begins with a...

Books received 2004-2005.
September 22, 2005... ISLAM AND GENERAL SURVEYS Barazangi, Nimat Hafez. Woman's Identity and the Qur'an: A New Reading. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2005. Hardcover $59.95. Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck and Barbara Freyer Stowasser. Islamic Law...